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Launchpad’s bug and branch privacy features were replaced by information sharing that permits project maintainers to share kinds of confidential information with people at the project level. No one needs to manage bug and branch subscriptions to ensure trusted users have …
If you are part of Launchpad’s beta testers team, you can now start trialing private projects on Launchpad. The private projects feature builds on the great sharing work that Launchpad’s Purple Squad has done, allowing Launchpad users to create true private projects …
After the success of the Launchpad clinics at the last UDS-Q we’ve decided to run some more! This time removed the sterile name of clinic and called them workshops. If you want to get involved, scratch that itch, learn how to fix that irksome bug that has been bugging …
I have been analysing Launchpad’s critical bugs to track the Purple squad’s progress while on Launchpad maintenance duty. In January of 2011, the Cloud Engineering team né Launchpad Engineering team was reorganised into squads, where one or more squads would maintain …
Updated network graph Back in January a side project was started to update the JavaScript used in Launchpad. Launchpad has been using YUI 3.3.0 for a long time, very successfully, however recent advances in YUI 3.5 and higher have added some great tools for development that …
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To go along with recent work to enable information sharing for bugs and branches, we are now enabling privacy for blueprints for beta testers. This means that blueprints now support some of the different information types that bugs and branches also support. For projects with a …
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Launchpad’s bug and branch privacy features are being replaced by information sharing that permits project maintainers to share kinds of information with people at the project level. No one needs to manage bug and branch subscriptions to ensure trusted users have access to …
Read more of Information sharing is now in beta for everyone →
For the last year, Launchpad has been doing schema patches using a process we call ‘FDT’, short for Fast Down Time. We have applied 60 such patches, typically taking between 60 and 90 seconds each time, at 1000UTC, our scheduled daily 5 minute downtime window for DB …
Project maintainers can now see all the private bugs in their project. While Launchpad tried to ensure the proper people could see private bugs in the past, the old subscription mechanism was brittle. Users could unsubscribe themselves and lose access, or retarget a bug to …
You can now hide your own bug and question comments. If you want to hide a comment made in error, you can use the “Hide comment” action. You can see it, and even unhide it if you choose. The project’s maintainer or the trusted people delegated to work with …